Stewart Lansley is an economist and financial journalist. He is a visiting fellow at the
School of Policy Studies, University of Bristol and a fellow at London's City University. He has written on inequality, wealth and poverty for
academic and specialist journals as well as several newspapers.

He is the author of a number of books including A Sharing Economy (2016), Breadline
Britain ( with Joanna Mack, 2015); The Cost of Inequality (2011); Top Man (a biography of Philip Green, 2007); Rich Britain (2006) and
Poor Britain (with Joanna Mack, 1985). He is also the author ( with Howard Reed ) of A Universal Basic Income: An Idea Whose Time Has Come? published by
Compass, 2016. His previous academic posts include the National Institute of Economic and Social Research and the Universities of Brunel and Reading. He is also a former executive producer in
the current affairs department of the BBC.

Recent Books

A Sharing Economy: How Social Wealth Funds Can Reduce Inequality and Balance the Books, Policy Press, 2016

A Sharing Economy proposes radical new ways to close the growing income gap and spread social opportunities.
Drawing on overseas examples, it shows how mobilising the huge financial potential of Britain’s public assets could pay for a pioneering new social wealth fund, and examines other ways of financing
such funds. Social wealth funds are a potentially powerful new economic and social tool that can:

boost economic and social investment,

by building the social asset base, simultaneously strengthen the public finances

ensure that more of the gains from economic activity are shared by all and not colonised by a powerful
few

be used to help fund an annual citizen’s dividend or a basic income scheme.

"Bold and exciting, A Sharing Economy deserves wide public discussion, scrutiny and debate."

Ann Pettifor, Director, Policy Research in Macroeconomics

"Capitalism needs reform. But how? Stewart Lansley argues powerfully and persuasively that a new economic model
based on a sharing economy is both possible and increasingly urgent."

Andrew Gamble, Professor of Politics, University of Sheffield

"Path-breaking. Provides a different model of how economic activity should occur and how prosperity should be
shared, together making a new lens through which to tackle inequality."

Mariana Mazzucato, Professor in the Economics of Innovation, University of Sussex

The Cost of Inequality: Why Economic Equality
is Essential for Recovery,Gibson
Square, 2011

The book argues that the real roots of the current crisis lie in the way the gains
from growing prosperity – in theUK, US and a number of other rich countries - have been increasingly colonised by a small
super-rich global elite. Growing inequality had squeezed incomes, sucked the lifeblood out of the productive economy and made the British and global economy much more prone to
crisis.

It provides compelling evidence that British and American capitalism has become little more than a wealth-diverting machine, geared to enriching the few at the expense of the rest. Escape from the crisis and building a sustainable recovery
depends on a more equal distribution of the cake.

Runner-up, Spear's Business Book of the Year, 2011

' Exposes the truth about the economic catastrophe that afflicts the western world: neoliberalism has created consumer societies in which millions are so poor they cannot afford to consume. `
New Statesman, Book of the Year

'Lansley's new work belongs on every “people's library” shelf in an Occupy movement encampment. Your bookshelf, too.' Institute for Policy
Studies

'Compelling.... the central arguments of Lansley's book - and the solutions he proposes - deserve a wide hearing and an urgent place on the policy agenda.' Times Higher Education

'As the seminal book, The Cost of Inequality, has set out – we are suffering from a historic demand deficit.' Guardian Comment

'Crammed with data and evidence, with this book in your hand you never need go into an argument unarmed.' Red Pepper

Londongrad: From Russia With Cash, The Inside Story of the Oligarchs, Fourth Estate, 2009 ( with Mark Hollingsworth )

‘A racy and alarming investigation of the effect of Russian money on Britain.’ Economist

‘A gripping
chronicle of the decadence, danger and sheer power that defined a phenomenon… the definitive investigation of the oligarch phenomenon which rose and fell in the short years of the bubble of the past
decade… a gobsmacking, head-shaking read.’City AM

‘A mind-boggling and magnificently emetic exposition
of Russian expats who have made their homes in London.’ Sunday
Times

Top Man: How Philip Green Built His High Street Empire, Aurum, 2006 ( with Andy Forrester ).

Chosen as one of the Financial Times’s six top business books of 2006.

‘A top-notch, even-handed biography… Top Man is a model of clarity. It will be enjoyed by business pundits and general readers alike`. Times Higher Education
Supplement

‘Thorough and well-written… A rattling good story'. The Observer

‘Scrupulously researched.` Financial Times.

Poor Britain,Allen & Unwin, 1985, ( with Joanna Mack )

This developed a new 'censensual methodology' for measuring poverty - one based on majoritarian public opinion. It is a concept that
has been adopted by the UK, Australian and New Zealand Government and the European Union and applied in many countries across the world from Sweden, Finland and Germany to Russia, South Africa
and Japan.